Linux Kernel 3.6.7 has been released recently bringing more improvements and bug fixes. As usual, we will help Ubuntu/Linux Mint users to upgrade to this new kernel using our simple bash script as described below. If you want to download and install manually the kernel deb packages, click here. Here are some of the changes and fixes taken from the ChangeLog of kernel 3.6.7:

ALSA: usb-audio: Fix mutex deadlock at disconnection

ALSA: Fix card refcount unbalance

ALSA: usb-audio: Fix races at disconnection

DRM/Radeon: Fix Load Detection on legacy primary DAC.

xfs: fix buffer shudown reference count mismatch

xfs: fix reading of wrapped log data

cfg80211: fix antenna gain handling

drm/vmwgfx: Fix a case where the code would BUG when trying to pin GMR memory

drm/vmwgfx: Fix hibernation device reset

mmc: sdhci: fix NULL dereference in sdhci_request() tuning

l2tp: fix oops in l2tp_eth_create() error path

net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path

net: fix secpath kmemleak

tcp: fix FIONREAD/SIOCINQ

ipv4: Fix flushing of cached routing informations

sctp: fix call to SCTP_CMD_PROCESS_SACK in sctp_cmd_interpreter()

batman-adv: Fix broadcast packet CRC calculation

NFS: fix bug in legacy DNS resolver.

mac80211: fix SSID copy on IBSS JOIN

drm/i915: fix overlay on i830M

Linux Kernel 3.6.7 Installation

Open the terminal under Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 13 or older and run this sequence of commands: